NTFS read+write support is the preferred feature in mediaplayers. Playon!HD’s default system is NTFS. For whatever reasons you may have, perhaps you still wish to have a FAT32 partition. The Playon!HD supports NTFS as well as FAT32, both with read/write.

The Playon!HD formatting utility (when installing a new hdd or when you choose format in the setup) formats the main data partition as NTFS format. The reason is simply because FAT32 cannot support files larger than 32GB while NTFS can. As a Full HD mediaplayer, we expect to have many HD video files bigger than 4GB. However, for any reasons at all, if you prefer to use FAT32, you can!

Connect your Playon!HD to the computer via USB (Playon!HD’s USB slave port to Computer’s USB host port)
Install a partition editor in your PC, there are many available eg. EASEUS Partition Manager Home Edition (freeware, Windows), iPartition (commercial, Mac)
Use the partition to resize the NTFS partition (your data will not be lost as long as the new partition size is big enough for the existing data)
Create a new partition from the as FAT32 partition
Done – you now have 2 partitions in your Playon!HD – one NTFS, one FAT32
There are 3 hidden/unknown partitions – please do not edit or delete these partitions. They are created by the Playon!HD for system use.
Once done, you can connect your Playon!HD to TV (remember to unplug the USB cable connected to the computer). In Playon!HD, when you Browse HDD, you will now see 2 drives. Everything works as normal on the NTFS as well as the FAT32 drives. You can play, copy etc.

ps. For Mac users, OS X does not support NTFS read+write built-in. If you are thinking of creating a FAT32 partition purely for this reason, it is possible but not the recommended solution. The recommended solution is to install a NTFS driver in your Mac. Once installed, you can easily read+write Playon!HD’s NTFS drive and also all other NTFS drives running in Windows PCs. Here you can read/download NTFS-3G a widely used free NTFS driver for your Mac.

Hi

I'm thinking of installing a bigger capacity hdisk into my PlayOn DVR. How do I format and install the necessary software?

Thanks

Hi. Do you really use NTFS FS for internal hdd, by default?
What about ext3, raiserfs etc. partitions can player use it?
I asked this question because i haven't win or mac, just linux...

thx
almost Palyon!HD user dms

I have a topic about the EXT3, you can check it:
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1580

so maybe we can get some more attention to get EXT3 FS in the internal disk.

Using ext3 would make Windows users that want to connect to the pohd via USB need to install ext2/3 driver, and that isn't that easy. ReiserFS would be just impossible for windows users to use. Since Windows has the biggest user-base and NTFS support is easily available for both linux and OSX users the option to use NTFS is the best in my opinion.
On a side note, the internal file-system only matters if you use the pohd as an usb-disk.

Hah, best resouce.

This may confuse some of us, because it should say: The reason is simply because FAT32 cannot support files larger than 4GB while NTFS can.

HD formatting utility formats the main data partition as NTFS format. The reason is simply because FAT32 cannot support files larger than 32GB while NTFS can.